Responding to Part of a Complex Stimulus
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Authors
Messing, John Arthur
Issue Date
1969
Type
Thesis
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en_US
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Abstract
The experiment would involve the learning of a
discrimination between two complex stimuli, each having
one auditory and one visual part. After the discrimination
was established, an Sd component would be combined
with an Sδ component (one visual with one auditory),
producing a new complex stimulus to be presented alone to the organism in five-minute extinction test trials. For
instance, the auditory cue embodied in the original complex
SD would be paired with the visual cue in the Sδ to
make a new stimulus. The organism's responses to the new
stimulus would indicate whether it was relying more upon
the visual or the auditory cue to make the previous discrimination,
since the two were giving conflicting
information in this situation.
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